Jim Brown reviewed BUTTER by Asako Yuzuki
food, gender, kin
An interesting book about the messed up politics surrounding gender, food, and bodies in Japan (which in many ways mirror that same kind of messed up politics in the U.S.). The book offers an interesting answer to some of those problems by way of kinship as the protagonist arrives at a unique way of thinking about home, domesticity, friendship, family, and kin.
There might be no escape from the aforementioned mentioned messed up politics, but this book suggests that there might be different ways of inhabiting them.